Special boring?

[Phillip Carr]

I am curious if Parker or other manufactures would bore barrels or
One barrel in order to meet a customers special request for a gun to shoot a curtain size shot at a specific distance?

[MARK KIRCHER]

Phillip -

See the thread "6 Frame Hammerless" near top of Hunting with Parkers section -

I believe I have a gun made accordingly -

[Rick Losey]

I think we see this once and a while in the letters that get posted -

I also think I have seen such customer requests on Fox cards as well

it would surprise me if any of the double gun makers would refuse a customer's request to make sure a graded gun shot as desired

[Drew Hause]

1906 Hunter Arms catalog courtesy of David Williamson - "Should the sportsman desire a gun to make a pattern particular to his needs, we can bore them to suit."

http://pic20.picturetrail.com:80/VOL1373/6511424/24488932/412995344.jpg

[charlie cleveland]

i figure by this spread sheet they only bored the gun to full choke....maybe they back bored some of these guns to help with tighter patterns than full choke...charlie

[Rick Losey]

Hunter arms must have changed their mind when they brought out the Longrange to compete with the super Fox

at least I think 42 thousands is extra full

[Drew Hause]

Rick: some pre-1913 Smith 16g chokes have been measured with constriction greater than .040" :shock:

[Rick Losey]

Rick: some pre-1913 Smith 16g chokes have been measured with constriction greater than .040" :shock:

thanks
so - they would do it anyway :draw:

[Bill Murphy]

Those of us who copied the Parker Brothers records as members of the original Parker Research Team have seen hundreds of orders that specified special patterns at specific ranges with specific loads and shot sizes.

[Chuck Bishop]

Yes, not uncommon to see this in the order books.

[Phillip Carr]

Thanks for the feedback. Using a 12 gauge bore that was normally let's say .729. If a customer wanted to shoot a larger shot do I understand correctly they might overbore a barrel as well as play with the choke to achieve optimum performance to meet the customers expectations? If so then some overbored barrels might actually be original factory bores?

[Rick Losey]

I don't think .729 was as much of a standard a hundred years ago or more

I expect many guns measuring well into the mid to upper .730's are factory original, but with out it listed in the books- its a guess